History Main / TeleporterAccident

* In {{Marathon}}, Durandal has trouble teleporting you while you are in the alien ship.

* In {{Marathon}}, Durandal, the rampant AI, captures the player mid-teleportation, and forces him to "Play a game" in a quarantine storage, in which if the player loses, "(He and Durandal) will continue the relationship on friendlier terms," but if he loses, he dies. Tycho also steals the player from Durandal mid-teleportation a few times in Marathon: Infinity and once in Marathon 2: Durandal.
** In the first {{Halo}} game, Cortana accidentally drops Master Chief ''on his head''.
*** Thankfully, it was only a few inches; he was on target, but arrived upside down (Cortana was working out the alien coordinate system and got plus mixed up with minus).
*** In the multiplayer levels of {{Halo}}3, the player can place teleporters wherever they wish. This has lead to many Player Characters falling to their deaths.

* In the first {{Halo}} game, Cortana accidentally drops Master Chief ''on his head''.
** Thankfully, it was only a few inches; he was on target, but arrived upside down (Cortana was working out the alien coordinate system and got plus mixed up with minus).
** In the multiplayer levels of {{Halo}}3, the player can place teleporters wherever they wish. This has lead to many Player Characters falling to their deaths.

->"''Enterprise, what we got back didn't live long... fortunately.''"

** Actually, it happens near the end of ''Interesting Times''. [[spoiler: Instead of getting Rincewind back, they accidentally send him to [[LandDownunder XXXX]].]] Ponder figures out a {{Technobabble}} explanation for this.

* In ''{{Spaceballs}}'', President Skroob reluctantly uses a transporter even though he's scared of them. His fears are realized when he materializes and the bottom half of his body is facing the wrong way. He's transported back to "fix" the problem and we find out he only needed to get to the next room, anyway.

* Played straight and averted in a Ciaphias Cain novel. A squad of World Eater Berserker marines are teleported in front of Cain and CO. These Berserkers are fine and butcher their way through hordes of slaaneshi cultists. However, the foot notes mention that teleporting is inaccurate, especially when done through a planet as was the case here. Its likely that there are dozens of World Eater's entombed throughout the planet's crusts in near misses.

** Thankfully, it was only a few inches; she got plus and minus backwards in the aliens' coordinate system. Could have been worse.

-> ''"These intra-dimensional gates have proven to be completely safe. The device however has not. Do not touch the operational end of the device. Do not look into the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially. Most importantly, under no circumstances should you- (power drain)"''

** Cause people to get Transporter Psychosis, going nuts.

** According to Chakotay, re-materialization without clothes has happened. Which considering the alternatives is a blessing.

* In ''ThePrestige'', Tesla succeeds in creating a teleporter... sort of. [[spoiler:What happens is it sends a clone of the person to be teleported to the desired location.]]

* The remake of ''TheFly'' has both accidental teleporting and {{telefrag}}ging. The animals Dr. Brundle sends through come out "synthetic", inside out, and die in terrible pain. His own experiment with the teleporter [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready doesn't go well either]]: a fly enters the chamber with him, and the two are merged together. BodyHorror results.

** ''"Though the portals have been proven to be completely safe, the device has not. Do not touch the operational end of the device. Do not look into the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially. Most important, under no circumstances should you- (static)"''

** And in [[{{Novelization}} the novel of the book]] written by AlanDeanFoster one of the other unfortunates was [[spoiler:''Kirk's ex-wife'' (not [[StarTrekII Carol Marcus]], though).]]

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* Played straight and averted in a Ciaphias Cain novel. A squad of World Eater Berserker marines are teleported in front of Cain and CO. These Berserkers are fine and butcher their way through hordes of slaaneshi cultists. However, the foot notes mention that teleporting is innacurate, especially when done through a planet as was the case here. Its likely that there are dozens of World Eater's entombed throughout the planet's crusts in near misses.

* In book 2 of ''Jade Blonde'': The heroine and her friend travel by satilite like TV signals would, Split into a thousand pieces and put back together at thier destination. While they knew it was experimental they did not expect to switch voices and right arms.

The {{technobabble}} explanation is that the gate sends objects as energy through the wormhole, reintegrating them on the other side. The buffer keeps that information for a short instant before the gate re-forms and expels the travelers it just received. It's also the reason iris stops reintegration with a PortalSplat.